Kuper, Jenny
Dr Jenny Kuper
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Experience keywords:
AIDS/HIV and the law; international human rights law; law of war; law of united nations; international child law and policy; armed conflict situations; children and armed conflict; children's rights; humanitarian law; international law
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Dr Kuper has expertise in international law relating to children in armed conflict situations, international human rights law, humanitarian law, children's rights and United Nations matters.
Current research interests include: the development of child-related law in Nepal; challenges facing the African Committee on the Rights of the Child in implementing particular aspects of the African children’s charter, and lessons that can be drawn from that experience; assessment of the informal justice processes in Sierra Leone and/or Rwanda as regards addressing the issue of 'child soldiers'.
- legal ‘expert’ advising Forum-Asia (a consortium of SE Asian NGOs) on the appropriate legal standards for the proposed new Human Rights Declaration for the ASEAN region.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Law
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Uganda; Nepal; South Africa; Africa
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Languages: French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Kuper, Jenny (2012) Reparations for children. In: Medjouba, Faria, (ed.) Building peace in post-conflict situations. British Institute of International and Comparative Law (UK), London, UK. ISBN 9781905221479 Kuper, Jenny (2011) The development of international child law. In: Cushman, Thomas, (ed.) Handbook of human rights. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 9780415480239 Kuper, Jenny (2010) A minor matter? The place of young people in an EU human security doctrine. The international journal of children's rights, 18 (1). pp. 127-147. ISSN 0927-5568 Albrecht, Ulrich and Chinkin, Christine and Collantes Celador, Gemma and Flechtner, Stefanie and Glasius, Marlies and Kaldor, Mary and Kiljunen, Kimmo and Klabbers, Jan and Kuper, Jenny and Licht, Sonia and Lotti, Flavio and Reinhardt, Klaus and Schmeder, Genevieve and Seifter, Pavel and Serra, Narcis and Weisskirchen, Gert (2007) A European way of security: the Madrid Report of the Human Security Study Group. Human Security Study Group, Madrid, Spain Kuper, Jenny (2006) Bridging the gap: military training and international accountability regarding children. In: Arts, Karin and Popovski, Vesselin, (eds.) International criminal accountability and the rights of children. Hague Academic Press, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 155-166. ISBN 9789067042277 Kuper, Jenny (2005) Using law: the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and children. Interights bulletin, 15 (2). pp. 51-54. ISSN 0268-3709 Kuper, Jenny (2005) Military training and children: law, policy and practice. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden; Boston. ISBN 9004136738 Kuper, Jenny (2000) Children in armed conflict: the law and its uses. Development, 43 (1). pp. 32-39. ISSN 1011-6370 Kuper, Jenny (2000) Children and armed conflict: some issues of law and policy. In: Fottrell, Deirdre, (ed.) Revisiting children's rights: 10 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Kluwer Law International, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 101-113. ISBN 9789041115089 Kuper, Jenny (1997) International law concerning child civilians in armed conflict. Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 0198264860
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Dr Jenny Kuper is a Visiting Fellow at LSE, and is also qualified as a UK solicitor. She worked for a number of year as a solicitor, specialising in child-related law (including family law, care cases and juvenile justice), prior to obtaining her PhD in international law in 1996. She has been a Research Fellow at LSE since 1999, based primarily in the Law Department and with links to the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, the IHL Project, the LSE-based Study Group on 'A Human Security Doctrine for Europe' and International Development. She has also worked more recently as a consultant for UNICEF on law reform issues in Nepal, and for the International Committee of the Red Cross as the UK expert for the study on 'Customary International Humanitarian Law.'
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